Indianapolis Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 109, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 April 1885 — Page 12

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THE INDIANAF0L18 DAILY SENTINEL SUNDAY MORNING" APRIL 19 1885

TALMAGE. The Great Praachor Telia What lie Thinks of Koller-Skatincr.

His Tfxt.-"Ilie 'oIse or the Wheel OTer Against Them." And Again Hie IToIsö of the Rattllnsr of the Wheels." Hollar Skating in Itaelf I Innocent, bat May Lead to Evil. Brooklyn, N. Y April 12. D. Talmage preached la the Brooklyn Taeernacle this morning on The Roller Skating Craze." After expounding appropriate passages of Scripture he gave out the opening hymn : 'Mid icene of confusion and creitare complaints How awcet to my soul Is communion of sitnH! To End at tbe banquet of men j there'a room. And to feel in the presence of Jesus at borne! The usual great throngs inside and outside the Tabernacle were present, including strangers from all parts of this land and from other lands. Dr. Talm age chose two texts Ezekiel iil, 13: ''The noise of the wheels over against them ;" and Nahum iii. 2: "The noise of the rattling of the wheels." The following is the sermon in fall: In the one Terse are the wheel of help, and Ezekiel heard them. Ia the other verse are the wheels of destruction, and Nahum heard them. The good wheels and the bad wheels will decide the destiny of this planet. Archimedes eulogized the lever, and said, If he could find a fulcrum for it to rest on he could move the world. But he found no luch fulcrum, and It ia not the lever which is to lift or sink the world, bat the wheel, whether a solid disc or composed of outer rim and spokes and hub; wheel of the rail train, that accelerates travel; wheel of printing pms, that multiplies intelligence; wheel of ship, wound with tiller ropes; guiding navigation; wheel of sewing machine, that alleviates toil; wheel of chronometer, that measures the flight of the hours; balance wheeh, fly wheels, belt wheels, spur wheels, rächet wheels, driving wheels. The wheel, invented by whom I know not, but it is suggested to us by the fact that the plonetary system is a wheel, and constellations and ja'axies are wheels, and all of their smaller wheela working into tbe great wheel of the nnivex-e, the axis of which is the periphery on which rests the throne of God. Show me which way the majority of the world s wheels turn, and I will tell you whethsr it is r.OLMSQ TOWARD REDEMPTION OR RCIN, and tell me how many revolutions they make in an hour and I will tell you how Dear the world Is to its disen thrall men t or dissolution. In our day the principle of the wheel has come to be applied to amusements and recreations, nod the velocipade. and bicycle, and tricycle, and the roller ska'e are tbe consequence. And the thousaidvoiced question to be met is: Are roller skates wheels of help like those which Ezkial heard, or wheels of destruction like tho3e that racketed in the ears of Nahum. Never within my memory or yours has there been In this country such wide, deep, hizh jopular agitation on the subiect of amusements, and all ministers of religion, and all parent?, and all young people, and all old people must answer the question, and answer it right, and have a reason for the answer. Let me premiss that I have for twenty-five years been waiting for some new style vf amusement, healthful for body and mind, hopirjg it might come in time to res cue this generation. Such amusements have been apallmgly scarce. I'lenty of placos to blast and blight and consume, body, mind, and tout Never any lack of gambling saloons. Within one hour of every home and hotel in New York and Brooklyn there are places where a young man can get divorce 3 from his money while the old spl der of the gaming taMe oihcWtes at the mneral of innocent flies I'lenty of places where you can lose ten cents or a houee and lot or all you have in oce night. Plenty of drinking sal ions where the owner by outlay of twenty dollars' worth of alcohol can mix up stuff that he sells for J2.")0. They will let a young man have all he wants as long as his money lasts one glass, two glasses, three glasses, four glasses and then when, having felt in all his peckets for mere money, it is demonstrated that he has not so much as a postage stamp left, thev will help him Into the street to look after himtelf or be taken home by some other young man not quite as intoxicated; for rum sellers never help their vie tims home lest getting to the door they confront the mother or wife to whom God might lend one of His smaller thunderbolts with which she could strike the despoller into ashes. Pienty cf gates of hell and all of them wide open, the temptresses crying: 'Come in ! Come in !" Bat of gosd places a great deficit. Seve n o'clock p. m. finds tens of thousands of joung people home or at hotel or board-ing-bouee. "What shall I do with myself this evening?' he asks. You answer: ' Go to prayer-meeting." We 1, that is good ad vice for two nights of the week, but there are seven nights in most weeks. Subtract San day night and two other church nichts and you have four nights left. "Go and hear a lecture on astronemy," you say. Well, the yoHng nan' brain is tired from running up the figures of tbe account book or from try ing to sell goods to people that don't want to buy, and he has no appetite for a lecture on astrono-. y. He does not want to hear about other worlds; he has more than he can do to get along with this. Now, take up the newsnepers and pick out for him a place of healthfai recreation. The mcst ot the places advertised are unventilated audience rooms where the companionship is depraving and much of the spectacular is indecent. Two bonis and a half in such a place and the man goes home, body asphyxiated, mind weakened, eoul scarred. Consecutive amusement of that tort makes THRIVI50 BUSINESS TOR C5DXRTAKERS, afords tracedies of illustration for discourse oa the text, "The End Tnereof is Death " What our young piople want in their amusement is recreation for body and soul; some l hie g that will allow them to be asleep on their pillow at 11 o'clock every n'ght and awike, fully rested, at 7:20 in tbe morning; seme i hing that will put our boys and girls at the goal of manhood and womanhocd ready for useful and practical life, cot invalids at nineteen and twenty and twentyone, cot splinters ot humanity, not mainline or feminin apoligies. but ready to cemmind re pect, and with their own right arm, under God, shove aside all obstacles. Will this modern roller skating amusement help to do this? The amusement was invented in 1319 by Plimpton, a Frenchman, and he has been called the father of the rlük. He kept a tight

erip on the patent for his skate until 13, wben his patent ran out, and now there are factories all over the country and seven weekly pspen devoted to this one sport, and every night in the rinks, north, south, east and west, hundreds of thousands of people on wheels, good or bad. Should we favor this Style of amusement? I answer: Yes, under restrictions, and no if it be unguarded. In other words, it is the best thing or the frorst, as you make it. Some of theee rinks have already been the means of helping invalids, at d invigcration of the feebler, and innocent pleasure to thousands of young, middle-aged, and old. Some have broken up families, set surgeons to work at perilous operations, created life long ailments, and ate responsible for eternal misfortunes. I will not be miaut derstood. Vhoeoever represents me as givirg unrestricted approval or condemnation falsifies my position, and will be found to be defamers by those who read the stenographic report of this eermon. For years, as many of you know, I have carried a loaded gun ready to aim at every style of vile amufement that came out of the thicket to znt its paw and tooth upon the young, but 1 must always discriminate. The game-keeper, MacdonalcLof Glengarry, came home and found that his home had been ransacked by a regiment of English troops, and his family infanicualy treated, and that the chief offender was an oliicer who rode on a white horse. The next day the troops passing Macdonald emptied the saddle of the man riding on the white horse and found out afterward that the horse was riden that day by another officer who had borrowed it. Great was Macdonaid'a chagrin. Tee next day the troops passed again and again Macdonald fired and again killed the wrong man. Now my soul is fall of wrath against the amusements that have

iataied EO many of the homes cf America, but 1 must not aim at the wrong ones. 1 must know which are the offenders and which ooght to be unhorsed and slain. To me, rightly precautioned roller skating is the moat beautiful and healthful exercise I ever itnes?ed. It eclipses in gracefulness and healthy movement all the croquet and coasting and lawn tennis and football and moonlight gliding oyer frozen ponds and all the other hilarities of house and playground. It is gocd for the lungs, good lor the limbs, good for the circulation, good for the spirits. 1 see in it possibilities for the best exercise ever invented. It has all the advantages of the gymnasium with more exhilaration of the spirits. It has all the exuberance of the skating pond on which our fathers and mothers used to dart out, tippottei and furred with, none of the dangers of breaking through the ice. It has all tbe vivacity of outdoor games without being dependent on condit'on of the weather. It would be a grand thins if all our young men could for one hour almost every evening take a round at this merriment. The women of America who decline the stout brisk walk, called the constitutional, which keeps English women roseate and strong, would do well if almost every day or night they would leave darning and mending and bread nicking and parlor dusting and table setting and housekeeping for one hour and JOIK THE WHIRL of the skating rink. Some of these hollow cheeks would till up and some of these lackluster eyes would get back their lost light, and stooped shoulders would become erect, and incipient consumption and merciless neuralgia and nervous prostrations would take everlasting departure. It would be well if tbe stranger in our hotels, after spending the day in purchasing goods for his western house, would in the evening go to some respectable rink and hire a pair of skates and, independent of everybody and interfering with no one, take an hour of flight In tbe charmed circle and under the inspiration ot tne orchestra, and then go back to his hotel and say his prayers and go to dream of home. But, while these are the possibilities of health and recuperation in this exercise on wheels, many have used it to the damaging of body, mind, and soul,. and hence I speak of the restrictions. First, let us have no more of this vulgarity and immodesty seen every night in oar city of young women, alone and unattended, skating In rinks, and forming indiscriminate acquaintance ships. Let buch young penona be chaperoned by father, or tncther, or brother, or elder sister. When a man, however well drewed, on the floor without proper introduction, tips his hat to a lady, let the officers of the rink, always on guard, invite him to make rapid strides toward the door, and help him down the front steps with any auch means of Increaiing his momentum as may be suggested. Let those well-dressed devils who sometimes haunt such places get quick justice, and our ak&t leg rinks will be as free of them as a Friday night prayer meeting. Let all those who wish properly to employ this enter'ainrm nt net allow the blaze of light and the enchantments of drums and cornet a-piston te t.pt tbem to senseless and ruinous prolongation of the amusement. Let It not be a matter of contest who can skate the longest or count up the most fabulous number of circuits. Stop when you have got out of she recreation all there is in iL Remember the lavs of health are the laws of God. Keep the ten commandments written on your lungs and heart. Remember that a group of pneumonias cn every cold night stand in the door of every amusement, however honest, and would like to escort you to the sepulchre. Cool off before you face the north wind. Accept no unwarrantable gallantries. Know that the same law that dominates the parlor should cot dominate the skating rink. Know that the evil I reprehend is not confined to skating rinks. There are patents in all our cities who need to look more carefally after their children. In other words, flirtation is damation. Wben I see at the evening hour on Broadway, New York, or Fulton street, Brooklyn, as gent'emen retnrn from bast ness a group of young women with a conspicuous manner and gigg'e that is intended to attract attention of the masculine passersby, a horror strikes through my soul and I say, I wonder if the parents of those oung people are a are of this." The most of those who mkae everlasting shipwreck carry that same kind of a sail. The pirates of death at tack that s'yle of craft. I wish I ha1 a vo ce loud enough to be heard from the Penoojcot to the Rio Grande, and I would repeat- flirtation is damnation. I remark further that a craze on anything 1 DEPLOH 4 BLC. Ball p'ayirg, from whuh many of us got the strengt and the exuberance with which we have fooght tke battle of li'e, baa with many beccme a dementia and the gamblers have put their clutches upon the sport and at tne close of the game many have gone home despoi.'ed cf puise and despoiled of morals. But that ia not anything against ball playing. Boating, from which many of us who lived alor g river got development of chest that bas afforded us free iepiratIon tor twenty cr thirty years, and would have given atont lungs to many who ten years ago dis appeared through pulmonary complaint, has been misused by college students who have sacrificed book for oar and brain for muse'e victorious at beat-racing and dead failures for the duties of life. But that ia nothing against beating. 8trip the roller akate of the crrze, end substitute common sene. Aeon soling thought is that a public craze on any style of amusement is transitory, and you can not depend on the continuance of a city's insanity. One half of those who are now building skating rinks will go into bankruptcy. Acother remark: It is very important that peopie who haye pa3M forty years cf

ge do not forget that once they were boys and girls. That memory eeema from a multitude to bae been obliterated. Put yourself back twenty or forty years ago and eee what you needed then. Rheumatism is incompetent to make laws for sound ankles. Do not demand that people have the tastes of old age before they get into the thirties Don't expect golden-rod and China ftStOH to blcom on a May morning. The people who etart life aged in preference are the people who after a while bore the life out of prayer meetings and make religion a snuffling cant, and dbuat the world with that which ought to be attractive. You can't improve upon the Divine plan, and when God made boys and girls He intended them to be boys and girls until called to other conditions. They w ill come to the hard tn? of life soon enough. Let them now prepare the broad shoulders and the robust frame which after you are under the ground will be taxed to the utmost. Let the skating rink directors and managers join with the parents in A (iUAND CONSPIRACY TO OVERTHROW THE FEEBLX HEALTH and physical stagnation of our citie, and the grog shops and the places of bid amusement will be emptied and the coming generation will have a vigor rebounding and athletic. In some way the longevity of the human race is to be improved and the average of human life increased from thirty years to 100. As it is now we hardly get an education and start in our profession or occupation before we are amentus. We die at the opening of the conflicts of life, at Bull Run inst" d of Gettysburg. Another remari : A'a'.ylisof recrja'oa among those under consideration are oniy intenced to fit us for usefulness. Ii vre any

0! you lallen under the delusion that your cnier aim ought to be to enjoy joarself ?Hand oje a list of those people whom you find all hours ef the day and evening in places of entertainment and I will give you a list of per pie who are being sacrificed for bath wt rids. Tepper, rait, sugar, cinnamon, are good and important in their places, but mat would be an unhealthv repast in which there was nothing else on the table. Amüsements and recreation are the spice and condiments of tte solid feast of this life, but some of you over-p.'easuring people are trying to feed your body, mind and soul on condiments. Only those who have useful work to do, aid do it well, are entitled to recreations. The Bible was not sarcastic, as is generally supposed, when it says: "Rejoice, 0 young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in tbe days of thy youth, but know thou that for all these things Go3 will bring thee unto judgment." It means to say: ' Have a good time, have a real good time, bot don't go into anything that the judgment throne will frighten. Don't forget your duties; don't forget your immortality." Solon made a law that every maa should once a year show by what trade he got a living. If he could cot show that he had any business, he was arrested and punished as a thief. If a man in olden time wanted to become a Roman citizen, the officer of the lav would take the man's hand and feel it to see whether it was hard or eoft, and concluded if hard he was industrious, and if soft he was idle, while ia our time many a man with soft hands is diligent because he does his work with ths brain, and consequently the palm does not get caUous. We must all haresomelhing earnest and useful to do, and our recreations are only to reinforcs our capacity. Any game or exercise from which yen cannot return at night and say: "O Lord, bless the amusement in which I have engaged th:'s evening to my better qualification for the duties of this 'life." was an entertainment in which you had no right to indulge. UVISO IS A TREMI NDOI H AFKAIR, and alas for the man who makes sport and game a depletion instead of an augmentst on. One time whan Rome was besieged by Hannibal's army a great shout of laughter inside the city strangely alarmed the surroundiog army and it lied in wild precipitation. But guffaw of merry-making will never scatter our foes or lift our besiegement or pain our victcry. Jt will be face to face, foot to foot, sweri to sword, battle-ax egainst battle-ax, if ever we achieve anything worthy. Can you imagine a worse predicament than what I now sketch? Time has ended, and we are brought up to judgment to give account of what we have been doing. And the judgment angel taye: "You lived for many years in a world where there wtre millions of people in poverty, in sickness, in sin, in wretchedness of all torts, and then there were hundreds cf men and women who put forth every exeitiou to help them, some of those philanthropists and Christians toiling themselves into the grave, sacrificing all for others." "These women out yonder," saya the Angel of Judgment, "consecrated their needle to God and tewed garments for th9 destitute. Those herceä consecrated their swerda to patriotism and foant f or their country. Those were the friend) of orphm bsj lums and took the motherless to the bo3om of divine charity. Those were the angels of Northern and Ssuthern oittle fielda. Those were eyea to tbe blind and ears to the deaf and bread to th hungry and heaven to tbe lost" "They were!" cry thousands of tbe rescued. "They were!" reply all the ransomed earth. 'They were!" ehont the congratulating heaven. ' They were!" says the Christ whom for many years they served. Then the Angel of Judgment will turn toward these who t.AYX THEIR LIFE TO I'I.EASI I'.E, and say, "What did you do?" "We'.l, I enjoyed myself,-' eays one. ' Well," says anotter, "i was very fond of tbe drama and I sretitmy leisuie time in looking at it." ' Well," says another, "I could b?at anv oae in the city playirjg lawn tennis" "Wetl." eays another, T was tbe champion of ball p ayerp." "Well." says aoothr, "I culd skat for hours without stopping, and in biill ancy of gyration won tbe londest aop'ans?." "Is that all? ' says the Judgment Angel. "That was a'l," says the pleasari?t. ' rtat was all," lespondtd the keeper of the rec rds. "That was all," cried the wounded who have been' healed and the lost wbo have b?en foond and tbe sinful who have been rescued. "That was all," echo tbe caverns of this world as they get hot in th last conflagration. "That was all," reverberate the hills of heaven. "That was all," eays the judge of the quick and the dead as he seals their destiniej. May Almigbty G d forbid that any of us should make the disastrous mls'ake ot substituting merriment for daty! May we ail at last be fourd among those who Uiei the woild wi hout abnsine itl Uonoit to Ilave An OlTice-. Newman Independent. Two Newman Democrats were standing on tht corner, sonning themselves and talking about their political prospects, when a boy who was distributing patent meiichie advertisements thrust one of the bills inte the hands of one of the old fellows. Putting on hin spectacles, be managed to spell oit the following words of tbe advertisement: "My oiilce is that of liver searcher and regulator," "Wall. I'll be dnrned!" he exclaimed, ' here I've been foolin' arter the PostotSca. but failed to git It, and I've been a searchin' ft'ound far liver all my life and never aniwtd before that ther blamed Republicans had n ade an office outen it I'm gwine to hertbet thar office or I'll never vote another 1 diHiD ycrat ticket!'

ENGLISH HOME LIFE.

In Every Rcfpfct the Family Is Governed byLair. Hasband and Wife-Parent and Children Tliey Have lioytah Boys ami Girlish Dir Educational Methods Household Rellglou. IMianeapolis Tribune! Law reigns in the typical English household. And there law is enforcsd with military uniformity. The family is an institution in fact as we!I as in name. Parents, children, servants, guests are all under law. And the family is a law abiding community. The coming in and going out; the up-rising and the down-bitting, are regulated by law. In the houses of the wealthy and noble, not unfrequently the statutes are printed and potted in conspicuous places so that the casual guest may govern himself accordingly. Perhaps in all the bed-rooms as well as m the great hall there will be framed cards hung ap on which are printed the hours for prayers and the daily meals. This reign of law begets a strict and valuable economy ia every direction. First of all it saves time. Dinner is ready to the minute, the familyall the family are as punctual as the cook. The carriage :son time cr otherwise the c;achman is discharged for unpromptness and he forfeits a certificate of good character. The cliilliea go to school on time, and wha. is of infinitely more importance they go t3 bed en time. There are no sleeping, lolling children yawniDg, or no sleeping, snoring children irritating the nerves of guests when they should be in their bed. Servants have their time and seasons; their dajs out and their holidays, and no household crisis is great enough to causs the houeewife to venture upon diplomatic measures to abridge these privileges. The servants rise on time and retire at an appointed hour, and theee regulations are as inviolable as the order ortiature. Children obey and behave by law. It is the law of the family that the children shall be dutiful And affectionate. No child answers back. I was never in but one English family where I noticed undutiful or eulking children. Obedience 13 readeied with alacrity and delight Eaglish children are wholly pos-essed of the belief that to obey meats power; that only weak and willeBs people disobey when duty commands. ADd English children have level heads upon this vi'ul eubject. RULER AM) PRIME MINISTER. The mother is the head of the hou9, and the father is tbe head of the mother, lie is the source of all law and the mother is the source of all order. The mother executes the behests of the husband. He determines the expenditures 01 the household. She makes them. Diaries for the tn,ragements of the family are Kept, llou&ehord expenditure becks are as necessary to a well ordered family as a fan to a well dressed lady. By this is not meant it is ornamental; by no means. It is a part of the fitting cf the house as a fin ie essential to complete a toilette.' It is like a mariner's log boot. The expense-books are in every family, and are pes el weekly or monthly, and are examined with business care ard exactnt89 by ihs husband. There is do mean advantage taken by the wife oa the score of "good 'fellowship. " No more would a wife excuse inaccuracies and carelessce8s in her accounts than in those of the grccer cr beker. All the family bill of every de.-cription ail the waes to servants even these to coachman and gardeners, are paid by the wile. Tte household has but me expense bok. Tte elder children have their own allow ances. And these are never extravagant Extravagance among the well-bred Eaglish is deemed vulgar. A ycuDg lady in a middle class family, say where the family expenditures would be from jv".COO to ? 10.003 a year, would probably have an allowance of from $150 to $2"0 per year fcr all her personal expenses. This allowance would include c'othing, traveling, charities, and in abort all perboral expenses whatever. Usually children yet at school hate annual allowances to meet the'r extra expenses, and all children are allowed a given sum weekly for srnjdii g money. These allowances are supplemented by considerable gilts from the parents. The birthday and Christmas presents are often in the form of money or clothing, and party dresses of tn expensive sort are usually a little pleasent surprise, just before the night of the company or bell. This reign of law has a much higher usefulness than to serve as an econoruiztr of time. This latter is certainly ru important element and one to ba widely corcelved and used. But only fancy what pence end blifs; what absence of care and friction aie in tne gift ot this r?fgu of law. What saving of hot tempers and explosions of irritability under a regime wheru there is to expenditure cf etieDgth. English children grow up with their nerves intact. They do not know they have any nerves, but all the same, and by teason thereof, they have nerve. I'ARENTS AND (.UIL0F.E5. Tbe Ergliah in their homes are a charmlLg and erigsging people, and no mistake. Tie father is supreme in authority, and this law is one of Jove. It is never vexatioas. The wife and mother tiodj herein her ova security and her utmost happiness. The rai.k is as lucidly defined aDd as lirnily fixed as tbe husbano's aud father's. What a condition if temperaujtntal and practical repce this I? Ho time and ro strength wasted and misspent over disputable rights and prerogatives! Tne mother is the ostensiole at d obvioos autnority in the house. She ext cuts the fathei's wilL Children and servants come to her for orders and lay before her then grievance. The husband Is never trrtted wi.h soch de'ails. Nor is the wife, oa the other hand, treated to all tbe details of the politic of the town or the losej and gams of tte da's business. Their t'inclions are distinct ad they keep to theoi. All social civilities are observed, and domestic proprieties are never violated. Scolding, fretting and fuming in the familv are labeled "vnlgai" bf genteel peple and so this banishes them from its precincts. All advances are made on the part of tbe children. When the parents and children meet at breakfast. s:n- and daughters alike make overtures of affrcuon. The mother and tbe father are ktestd tr ths children, who Bem to cot'bider it a favor to bi accord ed such a privilege All sons and daughters so long as they abida under tbe parental roof are subject to the law ot th hOQseh;d. Tfcey eeeni to fetd that tbe least return tb y ran rrake the parents is dutituluts aad äfft ctioD. The hneVand and and wife are uniformly addri-'sedin trma ( eodearjient and rv the first Dane The Araencau habt of si eikirg to each other as Mr. Johnson oMis, Wilson ia unnnown. Familiarly tie word 4 dear" or "love" is u?ed, cr else formally "John" or "William." Children never use sir'' or "mam" in speaking to parents, but always say "js. papa," or "no, mamna," as tbe esse may be. The use of these prefixes Las a value UDknown among ns We use these words to everybody and oa alt

occasions. I mean the most of all people do. When a youth addresses a magistrate or a minister, or a tchoolmater as "Sir," he does it with euch accentuation as to couvey a special and meant mark of respect There is much more affectiocateness expreMsd by words and deeds in an English family than among oarselYe. and the usual civilities of manner and speech are more scrupulously observed. The rights of each member of the family to privacy; to hi own room and books; to his own time and arrangements, are uniformly resrected. The hou:s haye their datifs and their pleasures and are kept with a regularity and obligation that we have not learned to understand. The s:cial comspondencs of the family, including that of the father, is aidressed to the housa and the first post delivery is made all over Great Britain by S o'clock in the morning As the breakfast is an infcrmal meal, letters and papers are opened and read. Business begins at a much later hour everywhere in Great Britain than in most parts of America Gentlemen leave home more leisurely in the morning, and work more consecutively whilst at business than is the rule with us. In cor-3?qaence the work of the day is finished at an early Lour in the afternoon, and gentlemen return home in time to dress for dinner. In the warm months it i customary for hnsvaucl and wife, guests and perhaps the children, to walk about the garden and se the "animals' the horse and dogs before beginning the daj' routine. roYi.Ti i;oys. Boys are sent off to chooi at a very early a?e; sometime as early a from ten to twelve. They are put into the house of tha under-ma5teii of one of the great public schcols. and are fitted to enter one of the

lower "form s" at an age when boys with us would te still wrestling with "geography, grammar, history and arithmetic." They ar early drilled in Latin and Greek. Thoroughness in tbe education of an English child seerrs to be the first consideration. Tldinfss, regularity, habits of order and punctuality are insisted on from the moment a child is supposed to be responsible for his actions His b oks are kept in good condition, and his copy book is clean and tidy. The rnle would ba that an English child cf ten would write a neater and more regular band than an American child of fifteen. English people quite universally write well. They are careful as to the quality ot the stationery, the pen and ink which they me. I cever received a a Eoc'al or friendly letter written on business paper. Nor did I ever receive a letter from an English gentleman inclosed in a busineaj envelope. These, perhaps, are small matters, but they are noted orjly to illustrate the care and the result of early training. Boys are taught, however, that these are not small matters, and attention is given their observance all through life. In 11 families spending from iZ.OOO to $.".U0O yearly, and where there are children, a governess would be employed, and the younger children, and perhaps the girls of all at;es, would be taught at home. Wheu thiij is the case, tbe governess has pretty much tbe entire responsibility of the children. The school hours are as scrupulously observed as though in a fchooi away- from home. Many girls never leave home to tro to school, but when they have learned all the governess can teach, masters for special branches and for music are engaged to give lessons at home. The boys begin outdoor sports almost when they begin to walk. The governess is expected to take the children for regular and Jorg walks daily. Tne bojs have crcset, hares and hounds, lawn-tennis, riding.swimlüing and boatirjg, and kep up thesa outdoor exercises and recreations pretty much all through life. Gentlemen cf all ages engsge in these eports, and when too old to plav the more vigorous game3 take a hand in tow'9. Every Englishman knows how to p a? and to the labt erjova tbe play. The Englishman is a Spartan. Ue is hard and baidy. He suppresses his feelings. He has fcelirps, but they are bo deep down that it is hard to get at them. They never come to the surface. It is deemed unmanly to show feeling. He plays, as a boy, foot-ball. It is a cruel, almost brutal game. He runs his risk. J have seen a boy taken off the held ue conscious; when he came to hlmselt he said : "Oh, it's nothing." These boys are manly fellows; honest, truthful, trusty, generous and stout hearted. I never nad an Englu-h boy tell me a lie. In the upper classes few would in any way act dishonorably. Only through servility would the boys of the lower classes consent to ba sneaks. English boys look upon German boys a3 pedants, upon French boys as "babies," and open American boys as 'elderly gentlemen." The American boy is the mystery. An English boy stops in hi9 short breechts just as loDg as he (tin be. He has no fancy for parties and bal'9 and evenings in drawing rooms. He calls such things "bores." He prefers football and cricket; he choose rather to roam the fields with gun and dog; he conn's it gain when he has been in the saddle for the day. He is taciturn. He uses s!aog. Th's is b vernacu'ar. A green grocer's son who putf ou aus, he calls a "cad;" an awkward bey who is Inapt and a bit cowardly, he sa.i s :s a "duffer;" a hiding and deceitful boy is known e.s a "muH." When the tchoolmater is angry, he is a "waxy." He always uses negatives. A fellow is gc-hing when he tftj s a thing is good ; a RugDr or an Eton boy ntver ventures beyond saying, "it's not bad," ir "it's not half bad." He never would dream of sajing, "that's immenss;" wben he mtat:tthe same thing be would pay, 'it's retber joUy." A sixpence is a "taorer." and a shilÜDg i a 'boi." Hi fattens tbe ' guv'nor," and his mother is the "mater." His companion is his "pal," and i:s dog is h "brute.'. He never ha- a "picnic" cr a "circus," but only a "lark." So tn've sai s the uee cf s'.ang among English tojs, tb t ihey have no notion that their vtrntcularis sang. To talk in any other tongue, oo!d be not only affectation, bat cheeky." G'r's as well es boys ns ' nay" for diigreeable, ad "beast y" for offensiv. Er gliah boj s are never effaminate, and ttey are very "taking" i9cac.-si they are such sp.'tnd-d bojs They dieis like boys till they are eighteen years ofd. They cb y like boys; ttey study end play; they feel and think; they feed and sleep; they disport thertsjlves in all waj s like bos till they btcnie men. and then they put away child's things All tcreigne:.-in America asks whsre tbe children are. The absence of iojs and nirli is altogether the mc' s riking feature of &.tnerian society. Ir is dellcionsly refreshing to n eet in America a boyiso boy or a girlish g rl. Manish boys and wcruanUh trrls are tte rule in American lie-j fwrdigaers think and say. GIRLISH GIRLS. Eug'ih girls are suppressed. Bat they di not kLow it I' seen they are not heard; and they are not olu n seen. They are never put on exhibition. Their rcaoters is qiiet aad tbeir dree is very siuip'e. The richer and higher tbp rank tbe plainer they are dr?std as a role. Child:ea never wear jewelry atatl, and If to very rnodf st pieces, euch as a pin or a ring. Chtdren aie never put in finery. They are kept in the nurserv till they have aruir-d qrit and unobtrusive manners. They do not dine with the family till such age as guarantees good table manners. The brilliant complexion of the children onewhat due to the soft and humid climate it a result of careful diet and regolar hours of work, recreation and alee p. The gira are with their mothers much leas than are French girls, atd are with nurses and goveraeisci

much more. Tb7 are very shy and nodeet. Their reading iare!is?oa!y looked after, and few read sensational or üaahy fiction. 8oli J. reading is the rule. Indeed they read bat little and know but littls outside their textbooks. The girls, and for that matter the women, have no genius for coaTersitioa. They seldom prattle interestingly, as ths French ladies do, and take no zreat delight in whispering scandal as the German lall do. They embroider and sew. and all have "fancy work" on hand. They never ait idly. Even in the drawing-room, in the evening they will converse while doing some sort of needle work. The girls ride, take Ion? walks, play tennis and ream the gardens and fields. Amcc: the wealthy classes they have their horses and decs, and spend considerable time with them. The date for a girl's entrance in society Is not left to be decided by a whim, an accideat or not at alL She is not in society while aha is a tcLool girl. She dees not go to partiss or have beaux, or pat oa the dress and manners bl a joung ledy till her girlhood days are past and she bas quit the Echooi-room. When the time comes she is "brought oat" A party is given at the openingof theseason, and ehe is introduced into society. Vhls would be not earlier than her seventeenth year and perhaps as late as her nineteenth. THIY GO A TRAVELING. English children see a good deal of ths world. Boys are very much under the their tutors and frequently s oend their holidavt under their charge traveling oa the continent and with the object in view of acquiring the French and Geaman languages. Well born children are early taaght to speak both these tongues. To perfect their pronunciation and increase their facility of epeech they are taken to reside a time, or to travel, in France and Germany. It ii very common to meet a half dczsn boys ii ths care of a tutor, or a joung curate, making excursions on foot through the Rhine coaatiy or in Switzerland. F.rLIi.ION AT no ME. There is a religious lite in most Ea;'hh families. It is a ma'.ter taken for granted. Family worship is obseryed in the vast majority of families. Among the upper classes domestic religions observance is looked upon as a part of the well ordering of the household. It is not a subject of which children ficht shy in any way. The children are asked to aay grace at table boys ani girls alike except when guests are present. Children are taken to church at a very early age, and grow up accustomed to church attendance. The institutions and ordnances of religion are held in profound respect. The clergy are honored and ho'd a distinct place in the regard and even affectioascf the femily. The family life is the safety and bulwark cf England. The religion and reveranc w lr ch are ever present and ever a:tive la th family life cf England are its strength and Rlory. Robert Laird Collikr

Love Uidluz. Love was playinehide aad seek. ani we deemed that he was gone. Tears were on my withered chtei For the setting of the sul; Dark it was, arou t, aoove. but he came again, my love I Chill and drearlt was Novernccr, We recall the happy eprinz. While bewildered we remember When the wool ljan to vrln ; Leafless lay tlie slleat grove. But tecame again, my lore! And our melancholy fro-t ttoke to radiance in hi9ravs Who w ore the looic of oae we'ioat In the far away, dim days: No rraycr. we sished, the deal may aovej Vtt he came aijaia, my love! Love went to sleep, but not forever. And we deeaied Uithe was deal; Nay. stall augit avail toenvr Hearts wt:o once. lnJet-i, were well Garlands for his grAve we wove, "Vet he cane again, my lovel Itodea Noel in the Academy. LITTLE rOLKS. "Anna, wtat must you do, berore anything else, to have your sir.s fjrzivea? ''Cornau the tins." "The boy at the head of the claw will state what were tbe dark eges of the world." üoy hesitates. "Next Master Smith." "I giets they were the ages just before the inveatioa cf spectacle?." "Go to your seat " A little boy in Saratoga, not long sines came running in from out doors, cryin because he had been stung by a bse. "Mamme," he sobbed, "Ed just as lieve the bees 'd walk on nie, but Icoa't like to have 'em sit down." An Austin Sunday school teacher esed her class: "For what ptirpcss did God give nan his different penses? Why are we giveu eyes?" To shut 'em up when wa zo to eleep," taid the dull b;y at the foot of the claes. Texas Eittings. A clergyman not a thounnd railei from this city told a ttory in his sernnn the other morning hich in tbe ooinion of some of his auditors required considerable faith to swallow. This opinion was fully shared by the clergyman's little daughter, who at the dinner table looked very earnestly at her father and asked him if the storv was quite tra. "Why, certainly, my child," answered the minister In amazement; "but why do you ak me?" 4 Oh! ' she responded very qulcklv, "I didn't knew I thought that may be you were only preaching!" Uad f.r Anylody. "Sweet things are very ba 1 for you, dear,'' said a fond mother to her little six year-o!d toy, wl o had the end of a fast waning stick of candy m his mouth. "Ar d is sweet thin? bad - for papa, loo?" akfd the innocent child, releasing the stick from his month fir only an instant. Yes," eaid the mother. "I thought so," replied the cbi'd, as tha .'a?-t end of the stick disape i-d. "Why did you ttr.Dk o, my bo ? ' "Because he always goes out wata you begin to siDg Sweet Violets." Juvenile Dictionary. Bed-time Shut eye time. Dost Mai with tbe jutre iquzd oat Fan. A thing to brah worms off with. Fins. Afiste'swirgs Ite. Water tha' taid out in the cold and went to ilep Nestezz. Tbe egg that the o'd be meares to make npwcr.ee. Fig A hoMiitls boy. Salt What makes yr or potato taite had when y u dorj't put sty oa. Snr rinsr, Letting o J seep. Stars The rcoor.'a g. Wak-fol-rets Eyes all the time cour.Ejijaab it'-oued. Another Fattier Wr.tr.l. ör enf our wholeta'e merchants hs a h.ixbt little daucater wni n at it x years of ege. She is one of tboe Htt.'e chJMren wbo wants to low everything ai d cau't coccive how a great many thi happen. Sae accosted her mother the other day ai follow: "Mamma, were people alwavs oa this eprthr "No. my child." "Then how did ther get here? ' Oor forefattera were made nf dust ' ' IM I have four fathers. Ma?" "Yes." replied the mother, not noticing what the li'tle girl meant Well, then, I'd like to get acquainted with the other three, and then mavbe I'd gt rxore spending moaey, Ths pa I've g)t no Is awful cloee."